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A t the Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU, General Assembly meeting Oct. 18, four bills passed without incident. The fifth, Bill No. 55-09, sparked argument among the general assembly and led to a recess in the middle of discussion. The bill passed after over 17 minutes of debate about the rights of gay and bisexual men.

The bill, introduced by GA Representative for the Alliance of Queer & Ally Students Colin Wiebrecht, called for ASMSU to advocate against the Food & Drug Administration’s current oneyear deferral policy on blood donations for men who have sex with other men. The deferral policy is the descendant of the original ban from the 1980s at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

“It goes into the incorrect, discriminatory and false notion that HIV is only in the gay community,” Wiebrecht said.

He cited a Williams Institute study that indicated up to 615,000 pints of blood are turned away annually on the basis of the potential donor’s sexual activity.

“This received a lot of attention after the Pulse nightclub shooting. Many members of the community went to donate blood after the shooting and were turned away due to this policy,” Wiebrecht said. “It is still discriminatory.

It still carries on the notion that stigmatizes HIV as a gay disease.

“There are testing procedures that can test for the disease now in the blood, but that still doesn’t erase the fact that this was a ban that

only applied to gay and bisexual men, even though the disease does not discriminate.”

There was a murmur of agreement, and a couple of representatives stood to state their support of Wiebrecht’s stance, believing the deferral policy is tantamount to discrimination and should be advocated against.

It appeared this bill would pass in the same way as the others, until Sergei Kelley, the GA representative from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, raised his placard to speak. He was extremely critical of the bill.

“First, the bill is not very good. The bill assumes America, our communities, even this university at large, is anti-gay. This assumption leads to a second assumption that this inherent anti-gay discrimination has rooted itself in the FDA,” Kelley said. “The blood deferral policy is out of health concerns, it is not anti-gay.

Countless studies show the harmful effects of homosexual activity or men having sex with other men.”

When reached for clarification Oct. 24 Kelley said he was referring to a Center for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, study from July 2002 showing the rate of HIV infection in gay and bisexual men is nine times higher than in women and straight men. The CDC’s current policy is to screen all blood for Type 1 and 2 HIV. At this point in Kelley’s speech, Wiebrecht began to shout “point of order,” which ASMSU President Katherine “Cookie” Rifioitis granted.

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“ASMSU has an explicit nondiscrimination policy and I’m not going to stand by as my community is maligned and attacked by false notions that should bge long gone.”

Colin Wiebrecht Alliance of Queer & Ally Students Representative policy and I’m not going to stand by as my community is maligned and attacked by false notions that should be long gone,” he said.

A five minute recess was called. Some representatives went to use the bathroom or get water. Others huddled with those they agreed with on the issue and discussed it.

Those unmoderated discussions were sometimes overheard getting loud.

After the recess was over, Vice President of Governmental Affairs Eli Pales spoke to try to bring order to the assembly.

“I think we shouldn’t be interrupting one another when we speak, each person gets their three minutes. I think whether you disagree or agree with their opinion, doesn’t give you permission to cut them off, even if it is an opinion that you find heinous,” he said. “I think

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some opinions on this GA are very outnumbered, so there’s gonna be a lot of time to respond to opinions that you find vile.”

Kelley next brought out a cardboard box, purportedly containing hundreds of pages of studies that labeled sexual contact between men as inherently dangerous.

“I am not fighting against people, I am fighting to promote healthy communities,” he said. “As a top research institution, we are to embrace science and the answers it provides; the reallife data.”

There were over 17 minutes of discussion after the recess on this bill alone. Dylan Catalano from the sophomore class council argued that Kelley’s claim that the deferral was based on increased HIV risk was incorrect, citing CDC policy.

“They already test all blood donated for HIV Type 1 and Type 2, so the current policy that exists is only based on discrimination,” Catalano said. “That is evident, because they are already able to see whether the blood that is donated has HIV in it or not.”

In the end, the bill passed, but not without considerable incident. The two bills that passed after Bill No. 55-09 — one related to voting on campus and another related to free printing, took up a combined 12 minutes of the meeting.

ASMSU has committee meetings at their office on the third floor of the Student Services Building Oct. 25. The next General Assembly meeting will take place in the International Center Nov. 1.

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hough still officially in the exploratory phase, the plan to consolidate Ingham County district courts appears to be moving forward.

Administrators and court officials have been meeting to discuss preliminary ideas for the consolidation over the past few months. County jails would be consolidated as well.

At a discussion-only meeting Oct. 23, the East Lansing City Council reviewed current plans and partner proposals for the project.

Essentially, three district courts — 54-A in Lansing, 54-B in East Lansing and 55 in Mason — would all move into one new speciallyconstructed building. Included in the 54-B District Court building is East Lansing City Hall, which could also move into the new building.

City Manager George Lahanas said there has been talk of constructing the building near the southern end of Michigan State University’s campus, though it was announced during the meeting the proposed property may no longer be available.

Each district housed within the new facility would receive the same services currently available at the separate district courthouses.

Some reasons for the proposed move are conditions in East Lansing and Ingham County jails, which have been described as outdated and too small.

Lahanas said in a presentation to the council that consolidating courts and jails would increase efficiency and decrease costs, specifically when it comes to transporting detained persons from jail to court.

It would also cut down on staff, though no one would be laid off. Lahanas said when employees retired or quit their responsibilities would be absorbed into another position.

Lahanas said he expects to be out of the exploratory stages and into more concrete planning in roughly three months, if all goes as planned.

In order for plans to move forward, the council would need to support state legislation allowing district court consolidation to move forward. The joint court staffs of East Lansing, Lansing and Ingham County would need to develop a model of how the consolidated county court would function before council could take formal action.

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Judge Andrea Larkin of the 54-B District Court came out as a strong critic of the consolidation plans. According to Larkin, East Lansing’s unique demographics led to the separation of 54-B from 54-A in 1971, when the Legislature “realized issues that occur in a college town are simply different from those than those that occur in the city.”

She also criticized the plan as easing the load of other entities at East Lansing’s expense.

“Many of the projected cost savings are not savings to East Lansing, they’re savings to the state of Michigan, savings to the county and savings to the city of Lansing,” she said.

Distance was another problem for the judge.

Larkin felt city workers and residents from all over the county coming to a new court would make the situation clumsy, adding “costs and inconvenience ... to the citizens who need to travel to the newly located court and conduct their business,” she said.

Councilmember Aaron Stephens was also concerned about distance.

“We have a large student population here that maybe within their first year might be dealing with courts,” Stephens said. “Making sure students have accessibility and residents who don’t have transportation have accessibility is a big priority.”

The discussion ended with much for the council to consider over the next year, after which the legislation authorizing the consolidation will expire without city approval. Mayor Mark Meadows said it was at least worth the effort for the city to explore consolidation.

“We’re going to get to the bottom of this,” Meadows said. “If we don’t work it out, we’re right where we were. I don’t think there’s any damage if we do that.”

“Many of the projected cost savings are not savings to East Lansing, they’re savings to the state of Michigan, savings to the county and savings to the city of Lansing.”

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udgeting for food can become a financial or fraternities, but the vast majority of those burden to college students. For those who groups are different student organizations or can’t afford a meal plan or experience groups on campus,” Edmonds said. “We also financial difficulty purchasing groceries, the take anywhere from 15 to 20 walk-in volunteers or individual volunteers.”

MSU Student Food Bank is there to help.

Dietetics junior Holly Pelton, a volunteer at The food bank, first founded in 1993, became the first of its kind — a nonprofit run by the food bank since January 2017, talked about students, for students. Its goal is to fight food working with clients there.

“I love being a volunteer because it was fun to insecurity, which refers to limited kinds and package up the foods,” Pelton qualities of food. said. “It’s basically like a little T he ban k holds shopping experience, you get food distribution “Our philosophy is that to help out people, get their d at e s e v e r y o t h e r college is expensive food for them.”

Wednesday from 5:30 Pelton’s duty is to pick up to 7:30 p.m. in the Olin and if we can take away the food, explain options to Health Center cafeteria. some of the burden of clients and ask them what A l l MSU st udent s stress and some of the they want to eat. At the end, enrolled in courses in financial burden, then she cleans up and organizes fall and spring semesters anybody is eligible.” all food. who do not have an MSU “I really love it because dining plan are eligible Nicole Edmonds it’s not like being a worker, to receive free food.

MSU Student Food it’s not very demanding,” Students must have Bank Director Pelton said. “(It’s) not too their MSU student ID stressful of a job and you get at each distribution.

Nicole Edmonds, director of the food bank, to interact with people on campus ... I love to said it is meant to act as a supplement for know what their day is like and stuff like that.”

The bank serves more than 4,000 students and students who don’t have access to regular meals.

“Our philosophy is that college is expensive distributes more than 35,000 pounds of food in and if we can take away some of the burden of the course of one year, according to its website.

“I think it’s a great opportunity for students stress and some of the financial burden, then because as college student, it’s so hard to get anybody is eligible,” Edmonds said.

According to her, the food bank tries to food on a budget without working so hard or give away meals with nutritionally-balanced working and paying for the food,” Pelton said.

“It’s a good opportunity to get a break from selections.

“We usually have the same staple foods, that paying for everything and get some good food being your canned fruits and vegetables and to survive college with, which is nice.”

The only issue is getting more students soup and pasta and rice and cereal and those kinds of things,” Edmonds said. “We give away in to visit the food bank, according to civil MSU Dairy Store cheese, fresh bakery bread and engineering doctoral student Aksel Seitllari.

He lives on campus and has been going to the a wide variety of fresh produce.”

The bank is assisted by the Greater Lansing food bank for a year.

“It’s an amazing initiative that MSU does Food Bank, allowing food to be purchased at a lower cost. Volunteers are needed at the for helping students,” Seitllari said. “I wish I distributions to package the food and help knew earlier about this place and I’d like other students to learn about this. Maybe some clients.

“Those volunteer groups tend to just be other marketing or some advertisement should be student organizations — sometimes sororities done about this initiative.”

Volunteers work together to package parsley for the MSU Student Food Bank Oct. 17 at Olin Heath Center. PHOTO BY CJ WEISS.

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“This is a complex university. We want someone who’s done it before at some level.”

Dave Dutch MSU Board of Trustees Candidate Each input session followed the same format: A moderator asked those in attendance three pre-written questions and gave them the opportunity to respond. A question-and-answer period was not allowed, and each comment was limited to two minutes. Students, faculty and others were asked about the qualities, characteristics and criteria desired of a new MSU president.

At the input session held for the Council of Racial and Ethnic Students and Council of Progressive Students, a representative from the Black Student Alliance said they want the president to be a minority.

“According to the American Council on Education, only 17 percent of college presidents are minorities. I feel having a minority president as an MSU student will be helpful,” they said. “Especially in the face of racism, it will show that MSU is culturally diverse.”

Students at this session also expressed they want someone who would prioritize lowering tuition, diversity, inclusion, transparency and communication from the administration.

At the final input session, Board of Trustees candidate Dave Dutch told the committee the university needed a strong and experienced leader as president.

“This is a complex university,” Dutch said. “We want someone who’s done it before at some level and has gone through

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a cultural transformation. We are going through a cultural transformation. I think it’s imperative ... they’ve done this before.”

“WE DO NOT TRUST THIS PROCESS”

The presidential search process was met with backlash from the MSU community.

Reclaim MSU, a student and faculty activist organization, released a statement of distrust in the presidential search process, search committee and input sessions. The group cited a lack of community involvement in the rest of the process, and concern with the fact that the committee will consider both external and internal candidates.

“We do not trust this process,” the statement reads. “Our community has described and endorsed an inclusive and open presidential search. The Board of Trustees has not listened.”

Riley attended four input sessions, all of which had low turnout, and going to them “feels like banging my head against the wall,” she said.

“Because of the format, where they can’t respond to us, I feel like we’re talking into a black hole,” Riley said. “I don’t know what they’re writing, I don’t know what they’re taking in, I don’t know how to speak to them in a way that I feel like my voice is being heard.”

She hopes there will be close ties between the community input gathered by the committee and the final decision from the Board of Trustees, so the lack of input during the decision to appoint Engler doesn’t happen again.

“It’s a very real possibility this Board of Trustees will just say, ‘To hell with this process, we want this guy,’” Riley said.

Another concern was with the input sessions being scheduled at inconvenient times for students. Comparative cultures and politics junior Natalie Rogers, the communication coordinator for Reclaim MSU, also said the dates, times and locations weren’t being sent out soon enough.

ASMSU Representative Isaiah Hawkins said he was one of the only students who attended the input session held for his college because it was at a time most students had class. He also said it would have been beneficial if the sessions were publicized more, so students were aware they were happening.

“There’s a lot of students who can’t go, and if it’s at a time they have class, then they’re definitely not going to go,” Rogers said. “It’s very important to have student input in this process because they do have

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next president to be.

Someone who is not a politician.

Someone who is not a businessperson.

Someone who is not already a part of the MSU administration.

A leader, a woman, a minority, someone who is committed to preventing sexual assault on campus, someone who will address “the administration’s lack of response to, prevention of and investigation of instances of sexual misconduct.”

“If this new president does not see toxic, pervasive rape culture as the single number-one priority for the entirety of her tenure here,” Betsy Riley, a Ph.D. candidate representing Reclaim MSU said at one of the final input sessions, “then this whole problem is never going to be solved, and MSU is going to be the Nassar school forever.”

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ours after ex-MSU doctor Larry Nassar — who sexually abused over 400 women and girls — was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison, former MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon resigned.

This came as calls for her to step down echoed across the state. Nassar survivors, student and faculty organizations on campus, members of the MSU Board of Trustees, politicians, lawmakers and newspapers across Michigan criticized Simon for the university’s inaction and for mishandling reports of Nassar’s serial abuse. Her Jan. 24 resignation marked a new chapter for the university to rebuild its culture and reputation.

“We have a long road ahead to repair the damage which has already been done,” Trustee Brian Mosallam said in a statement released a few days after Simon’s resignation. “We must restore confidence and trust in this university.”

A week after Simon’s resignation, ignoring input from the community, former governor John Engler was appointed interim president by the Board of Trustees. Less than an hour after his appointment, student protesters expressed outrage with the board’s decision. Campus organizations, members of the MSU community and others called for the board to resign as the semester progressed because they felt unheard.

“The university was in absolute crisis,” Trustee Dianne Byrum said at an emergency meeting held by the Associated Students of MSU, or ASMSU, when asked about why Engler was chosen so suddenly. Though some trustees disagreed with Engler and his policies as governor, Mosallam said support from the board was “unanimous” for the sake of unity.

Engler’s interim presidency continues to face criticism, but he doesn’t intend to stay any longer than he has to.

Months after Simon’s resignation and Engler’s appointment, the search for a permanent university president began.

In a statement from Byrum and Trustee Melanie Foster, the co-chairs of the presidential search committee, this yearlong process is referred to as “the next chapter in our history.”

The first phase, a month-long process of listening at input sessions, is over — but there was eight months left of work to do before the search ends.

LEFT: Betsy Riley of Reclaim MSU passes out teal ribbons at the Kellogg Conference Center Oct. 11.

PHOTO BY ANNTANINNA BIONDO. RIGHT: Trustees Melanie Foster (right) and Dianne Byrum (left) answer questions from the media during a press conference June 27 in the Plant and Soil Sciences Building. PHOTO BY MATT SCHMUCKER.

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a different outlook on these issues than faculty and staff will have on these issues. If students aren’t actively included in the process of the input sessions, and they’re not included really on the committee, then how will their voices be represented?”

For those who could not attend any of the sessions, an opportunity to submit input online was made available on the official presidential search website.

“We had 22 sessions, plus the ability to go online and provide any input you wanted to,” Byrum said. “There clearly was opportunity.”

Students were also concerned about who made up the committee. ASMSU Representative Colin Wiebrecht said the amount of trustees on the committee is concerning, as well as that students were not given the option to choose who they wanted to represent them in the presidential search.

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MOVING FORWARD WITH HOPE

SEPT. 25 The committee chooses Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates, a woman and minority-owned firm, to guide the search

OCT. 2 The Associated Students of MSU begins alternative input sessions led by the only undergraduate student on the committee, ASMSU President Katherine “Cookie” Rifiotis

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NOVEMBER 2018 – JANUARY 2019 Presidential candidates will be identified and initial interviews will be conducted FEBRUARY – MAY 2019 Finalists will interview with the Board of Trustees

“Even though I don’t trust the process for this search, I don’t trust this Board of Trustees and I don’t trust this president, I still think it’s important for people to voice what they think they want to see in a president.”

JUNE 2019 The Board of Trustees will choose and announce the new president of MSU

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Byrum said the Board of Trustees empowered her and Foster, as co-chairs, to choose the members of the presidential search committee.

“They talk about how diverse they are, and it’s ten men, nine women. That already doesn’t sound great,” Wiebrecht said. “It’s very much the illusion of diversity; they’re trying to say ‘we checked all the boxes,’ but that doesn’t mean anything if you don’t give people the opportunity to choose who they want to represent them.”

At the input sessions Wiebrecht attended, he expressed to the committee there is still time to change the presidential search committee and process to include more student input.

“They’re holding these input sessions, but that doesn’t mean anything if they’re not listening,” he said. “It’s one thing to listen, but it’s another thing to act on those things and put them into practice and they haven’t done that,.

They haven’t shown us that, especially in the last year.”

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Despite concerns, Hawkins has hope in the process.

“I know there’s a lot of distrust in the process because of how little student representation is on the search committee, which is something that I’m pretty upset about as well,” Hawkins said. “But from my experience with the individual committee members themselves, they are all extremely receptive to student input, student voices and picking the best president. They take their role seriously.”

At one of the sessions he attended, he recalls a search committee member telling him about the importance for students to “spam” the online input forum on the presidential search website, to fill it with their voices until “it’s impossible to ignore.”

“This is a very engaged search committee.

They’re taking this role very seriously, they’re engaged, they’re participating, they’re prepared,” Byrum said. “There isn’t a single member on the committee that is afraid to speak their mind and speak up and share their opinions, which I find very refreshing.”

ASMSU Representative Carla Simone, who attended one of the alternative input forums held by ASMSU, was impressed with the ways the committee is seeking community input, especially with the online forum.

“If they use that a lot in the future, and if they give these concerns to the future president and the Board of Trustees, then a lot of progress will happen,” Simone said.

But some students are not as hopeful.

“I want to be hopeful but based on my experience here in the last six years — no, they’re not going to listen to us,” Wiebrecht said.

Andaluna Borcila, James Madison professor and a member of Reclaim MSU, attended the final input session and said she fears students don’t think their voice matters.

“Even though I don’t trust the process for this search, I don’t trust this Board of Trustees and I don’t trust this president, I still think it’s important for people to voice what they think they want to see in a president,” Borcila said.

“Of course, people can choose to do what they want. It’s tiring to keep saying the same things and see that the upper administration is not listening.”

As the process continues, Byrum said although they can’t appease everyone, the presidential search committee is having active discussions and working to change the process.

So far, things are going well.

“I think that transparency is something you work at every day, but we’ve tried to inform the MSU community as to what is going on and what the process is and when decisions are made,” Byrum said. “Through this process, there’s been a greater sharing of information that may not have been in MSU’s history.”

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Senior forward Dejuan Jones (6) looks for a pass during the game against Michigan Oct. 23 at DeMartin Stadium. PHOTO BY SYLVIA JARRUS.

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Coming off a 1-1 double overtime draw against rival Michigan in the final home game of the regular season Oct. 23, the 12th-ranked MSU men’s soccer team has one game left on its schedule, against second-ranked Indiana, before heading to Indianapolis for the Big Ten tournament in November.

MSU ranks second in the Big Ten, trailing the Hoosiers. The Spartans have cooled off a bit after a hot start – they didn’t earn their first loss until 14 games in against Wisconsin Sept. 30 – winning just two of their last six games including two home losses against Wisconsin and Akron.

Coach Damon Rensing’s club has statistically been one of the more sound offensive teams in the Big Ten this season, as they rank second in total goals (28), shots (209), points (90) and assists (34). They’ve been stellar on the defensive end, allowing just 13 goals through 16 games, good for third best in the conference.

But there is one thing the Spartans need to work on before they head into postseason play.

“Just continuing to work on stuff in front of the goal,” senior forward DeJuan Jones said after MSU’s 0-0 double-overtime draw against Northwestern last Friday. “(We’re) not sharp enough. We had some good chances, so we’ve just got to work on finishing those chances.”

According to Rensing, it may be a lack of aggression on the offensive end that is causing the team to have minimal success on scoring

attempts in recent games. The Spartans created 13 shots against the Wolverines but only registered a single goal, and went scoreless against the Wildcats despite creating 22 shots.

“I don’t know if we’re pressing,” Rensing said after Northwestern. “We certainly had more than enough chances, you had 22 shots … We needed to be better on the attack.”

The Spartans have compiled just four goals on 61 shots in their last four games. Their lack of offensive production over that stretch has been uncharacteristic considering their season average of just under two goals per game on about 13 shots.

“We probably have to work on a little finishing and put the ball in the net,” Rensing said. “That’s

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really all this group’s got to do. I think the confidence and stuff will come from it. It will come, we’ve gotta keep working on it.”

Rensing knows opposing teams aren’t going to aid the Spartans in finding their groove on offense.

“Teams are going to be more organized, they’re harder to break down, they’re more into it … All you can do is look at creating some chances,” Rensing said.

MSU has just over a week left to get ready for the Big Ten Tournament, and if the standings were to remain the same after Sunday’s match up at Indiana, the Spartans would head into the tournament as a No. 2 seed, as Indiana already clinched the top seed.

This gives MSU an incentive to finish the regular season off with a win, but either way, Rensing is confident his team will be in good position come tournament time.

“I think this tie (against U-M) probably locked up a quarterfinal top four host,” Rensing said after his team’s draw against the Wolverine. “I was a communications major here, so my math isn’t great … but I do think we’ve got a pretty good chance to host here.”

The Big Ten tournament kicks off for the Spartans Nov. 4. The start time depends on standings at the end of the regular season.

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Telling the future through tarot cards

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“WHAT I DO IS FUN, NOT SCARY.” Claudette Holloway, a tarot card and astrology reader, said. Some people have their doubts and hesitations when it comes to this practice, but Holloway wanted to clear things up for those skeptical people.

Tarot cards are a stack of 78 cards used to map future trends in someone’s life. There are 22 Major Arcana cards, which predict karma and spiritual trends, and 56 Minor Arcana cards that predict future trials and tribulations.

In Holloway’s words, tarot card readings are “for immediate questions and concerns about oppor tunities and issues in their lives.”

“Astrology looks at opportunities and issues that a person has in his or her lifetime based on where the

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planets were at the moment they were born,” Holloway said.

Holloway also reads astrological signs. She reads all of the relationships in your life, whether they are with family members or a significant other.

Holloway said she is around 98.5 percent accurate for both tarot card and astrology readings.

“I’m human, I’m not perfect. I still have things to learn and I’m learning all the time,” she said.

After each reading, she provides outside resources to help clients cope with the results of their readings, offering resources for people who need additional help, like counseling or LGBT-specific services. She also recommends checking out Triple Goddess and Coyote Wisdom, two bookstores located in the Lansing area that provide similar services.

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East Lansing Halloween events on Oct. 30

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Halloween can be celebrated in ways other than trick-or-treating. Through East Lansing’s community events planned for Oct. 30, residents and MSU students have the opportunity to celebrate the spooky holiday at downtown events.

The events include Safe Halloween, The Great Pumpkin Walk, the Haunted Campus Tour, the Wild Goose Inn’s transformation into the “Land of Oz” and ArachnoBROADia at the Broad Art Museum.

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1 Gather for oneself 6 __ accompli 10 Brontë or Boleyn 14 Video game hedgehog 15 Up to the task 16 Cambodia neighbor 17 1971 road film costarring James Taylor 20 Cozy stopover 21 Golfer McIlroy 22 Shaggy 23 City SW of Bogotá 24 Prefix meaning “loving” 26 Treachery 30 Church organ features 31 Two-masted vessel 32 “Do You Know the __ to San Jose?”

34 Got older 35 Gets hot under the collar 37 Taste, as of a sandwich 38 Mangy mutt 39 Tight-knit family 40 “Funeral Blues” poet W.H. __ 41 Spectacles 45 Hearty meals 46 Ugh-producing 47 Assume the role of 49 Poet Pound 50 New Deal agcy.

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28 Fading away 29 Garden swingers 30 Source of some D.C. funding 33 Strong desire 35 Low __: cheap shot 36 Clumsy sorts 37 On a tight schedule 39 Getting gradually louder, in mus.

40 With suspicion 42 Bologna’s land 43 Tin __: Model T 44 Parcel of land 47 Sandler of “Grown Ups” films 48 Like kitten videos 49 Berlin article 50 Start of a “Knock, knock” response 51 Toll road 52 Mountain climber’s goal 54 Wrath 55 Sink feature 56 Sailor’s distress signal

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SAFE HALLOWEEN

MSU Greek Life will provide a safe night for children to trick-or-treat from 5 to 7 p.m. on M.A.C. Avenue. Activities include crafts, face painting and giveaways. The event is an opportunity for children to socialize with college students.

Money raised during the event will go toward Special Days Camps, a camp for children with cancer and their siblings.

Country music singer-songwriter John King will perform.

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More than 50 downtown East Lansing merchants will give out candy for a night of trick-or-treating from 5 to 7 p.m.

Parking downtown will be free from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Activities provided by the Wild Goose Inn, Grand Traverse Pie Company and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will be on hand to keep trick-or-treaters entertained. Grand Traverse will hand out cookies, while the Broad Art Museum will offer games, crafts and insect education from the MSU Bug House.

An average of 1,500 people attend the event yearly, said Amy SchuslerSchmitt, community development and engagement manager for the city of East Lansing.

“It’s a fun opportunity to showcase some of our younger families in the community, and really allow them to come downtown and see all of the businesses and service opportunities that they can enjoy through their merchant community,” she said.

THE WILD GOOSE INN The bed and breakfast will continue its annual tradition of turning into the “Land of Oz” from 5 to 7 p.m. with color ful decorations and costumed characters from the movie “ The Wizard of Oz .” T h e occ asion will also feature a re plic a ye llow brick road.

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The Broad Art Museum will have activities for children including Halloween games and crafts. The MSU Bug House will educate people about creepy insects at the same time.

HAUNTED CAMPUS TOUR

M SU ’s C ampus Archaeology and Paranormal Society will host their fifth annual Haunted Campus Tour from 7 to 8 p.m.

The hour-long walk will tour the north side of campus including the MSU Library, Beaumont Tower, Beal Botanical Garden, Mayo Hall and Saints’ Rest. Attendees will meet at Beaumont Tower.

Tour guides will share information from Campus Archaeology and the Paranormal Society. Campus Archaeology will explain historical occurrences in the buildings and show archaeological finds, while the Paranormal Society will discuss legends that have circulated throughout the years, said Ben Clemens, journalism sophomore and the society’s social media chairman.

“We’ve heard and researched many legends surrounding a lot of these historically important sites on campus,” Clemens said. “Two or three weeks ago we did a campus-wide paranormal investigation at these sites, so a lot of the legends are very fresh in our minds.”

Compared to orientation tours, the event is an exciting way to learn about the history on campus with legends and archaeological finds, Clemens said.

“It’s an avenue for people who may not really be that interested in history to really get to know history,” he said. “It’s all very interesting and it really makes the histor y come alive.”

To f i n a l i z e Halloween festivities for the year, East Lansing neighborhoods will hold their respective trick-or-treating events Oct. 31 from 6 to 8 p.m.

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Riding the bus can be horrifying, to say the least. Tricks and treats await you at every twist and turn of the route. In the spirit of Halloween, here are some of the most spook-tastic experiences with the Capital Area Transportation Authority.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DAENA FAUSTINO.

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While riding the Route 1 bus — an adventure not for the faint of heart on a bone-chilling day in December — human biology sophomore Hannah Baker witnessed a man satisfy his bodily needs in public for all to see. Things became extremely messy, to say the least.

“We were sitting on this bus, just chilling. This man stood up, pulled his pants down and started peeing,” Baker said. “It started rolling down the bus and people were stepping in it.”

When technology fails, most people say the object as “a mind of its own.” Journalism freshman Stephanie McCullum witnessed this firsthand on her commute around campus one day.

The incident she witnessed begs the question: Was this just a simple battery or engine failure, or maybe something more sinister, like a being from the great beyond?

“I remember this one time I was on the bus and it shut off in the middle of the road and the lights started to flicker,” McCullum said.

Whoever said common decency is dead might have been right. While this story may not send shivers down your spine, the lack of respect will.

Freshman Victoria Davis-King shared a terrifying social faux-pas she witnessed on the bus.

“A girl with crutches got on, and not one guy gave up his seat for her. The horrors of chivalry being dead,” Davis-King said.

Another shocking tale from the Route 1 bus proves it might be the spookiest of the CATA system. Computer science freshman Pookie Khounsombat witnessed a couple whose poor hearts couldn’t bear the long trip back from the Meridian Mall.

“There was a couple and another woman who got on after me. They all sat separate from each other,” Khounsombat said. “All of sudden, the man comes and sits next to his girlfriend and they start bawling full-force tears on the bus. The other woman goes, ‘Guys, stop it!

You are in a public place right now.’ And they kept crying. He was rubbing her leg, and she kept trying to push him away.”

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Column: The haunting of Mayo Hall

BY MAISY NIELSEN MNIELSEN@STATENEWS.COM

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n the words of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”

Have you ever heard a mysterious sound behind you and turn around to find that you are alone? Or the random tapping that seems to come from the other side of the door, yet when you open it, nobody’s there? Those are just a few of the many spooky instances that have occurred on Michigan State’s campus throughout the years.

North Neighborhood is the part of campus known for its picturesque scenery, complete with its ivy-like leaves and vines crawling up the walls of the oldest residence halls on campus. Yet there are many stories of spooky instances some students have experienced over the years. At the heart of these spooky stories lies Mayo Hall.

As you walk through the halls of Mayo Hall, you can’t help but get a spooky vibe from the antique tables and chairs — or the dark lighting and old fashioned piano in the corner — but the most eerie thing of all, the Mary Mayo portrait located in the east lobby on the first floor, is what attracts the most stories from students.

Some claim they’ve seen the eyes of Mayo’s portrait follow them around the east lounge, while others have heard music coming from the piano in the west lounge — with no one seated at the bench. Residents on the second floor have had lights flicker on and off, and closet doors

Students eat in a hallway at the Haunted Mayo 2018 event at Mary Mayo Hall Oct. 23. PHOTO

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have been said to open and shut on their own.

The Residential Housing Association (RHA) hosted Haunted Mayo, its largest event of the semester, Oct. 23 to help its residents get into the Halloween spirit with food, games, crafts and spooky stories.

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Society also provided tours during the event.

Carly Finegan, co-president of the society, took attendees to three distinct locations within the hall that have gathered attention from students and staff over the years. The portrait and both lounges, as mentioned above, were the first stop on the tour.

The basement, another infamous location of haunted happenings, was also visited. In one instance, a girl was doing her laundry and waiting for her clothes to finish drying. Without warning, the lights shut off and the door closed.

She scrambled to the door to find that it was locked, yet there was not a spot on the door for a lock. After crying for help for a few minutes, the lights abruptly turned back on and the door opened. This also allegedly happened to another student a couple of years later, reviving the tales of Mayo’s spirit roaming the building.

The Red Room, located on the fourth floor, was the last stop of the tour. The fourth floor was closed about 15 years ago for construction, and has remained closed to the public ever since.

The group was prohibited from setting foot on the floor, but got to look into the space.

This floor was rumored to serve a group of girls in calling and communicating with demonic spirits with a Ouija board in the 1970s. The room was supposedly the site of a suicide as well. All that remains of the Red Room now are pipes, vents and tales of demonic spirits once summoned there by those girls.

Whether Mayo Hall is really haunted by the spirit of Mary Mayo — or anything else — may never be evident, but those who live there will always have those spooky stories to tell. For those of us who have not had any of our own experiences, we are only left to wonder: Are these stories true, or are they simply in the spirit of Halloween?

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